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1 week ago | 
atlantaciviccircle.org | Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon |Katie Guenthner
Mario Guevara, a prominent Spanish-language journalist, was arrested while covering a protest against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Saturday. He should have been released on Monday on a signature bond. Instead, ICE placed a detainer on him, his attorney told Atlanta Civic Circle. “We were able to secure a signature bond for him this morning,” said Guevara’s attorney, Giovanni Diaz.
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1 week ago | 
atlantaciviccircle.org | Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon |Katie Guenthner
The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown — and its heavy-handed approach to governance in general — drew thousands of demonstrators to rallies across Atlanta on Saturday. For some, it was a first-time experience — an introduction to protest activity, and to crowd-control chemicals.
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2 weeks ago | 
atlantaciviccircle.org | Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon |Katie Guenthner
In solidarity with protests over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Los Angeles, a few dozen local demonstrators gathered midday Monday at ICE’s Atlanta Field Office downtown to decry the Trump White House’s aggressive immigration enforcement. By Tuesday evening, that had swelled to nearly a thousand protesters at a rally billed “From Atlanta to LA: ICE Out!” on Buford Highway, which resulted in at least six arrests. Both protests were overwhelmingly peaceful.
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3 weeks ago | 
atlantaciviccircle.org | Sean Keenan |Katie Guenthner
As federal Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) funding dries up over the next 18 months, more than 1,000 low-income Georgians could be stripped of the critical housing subsidies that separate some 60,000 Americans from homelessness.
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Jan 27, 2025 | 
redandblack.com | Katie Guenthner
Read these stories to catch up on five things you may have missed this week. Authentic. Peacemaker. Humanitarian. These are a few of the words students and professors at the University of Georgia used to describe former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29, 2024, at 100 years old. Carter, the first and only president from Georgia, was an activist, politician, peanut farmer, friend and inspiration to many at UGA. Read more about Carter’s legacy here.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
redandblack.com | Katie Guenthner
Until the day he died, University of Georgia senior Gleaton Jones always kept a written copy of a Bible verse, 2 Corinthian 5:17, on his dashboard. “This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!” The New Living Translation reads. On Dec. 13, 2024, Jones died from injuries suffered in a car crash on Dec. 10.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
redandblack.com | Katie Guenthner
The Clarke County School District announced in an email on Tuesday that a public hearing on whether to opt out of the homestead exemption outlined in House Bill 581 will be rescheduled due to inclement weather. A new time and date have not been announced at time of publication. The hearing, originally scheduled for 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 21, would have been the second of three public hearings regarding HB 581.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
redandblack.com | Katie Guenthner
Here are five stories you might have missed this week!In November of 2024, interns at the YouthForce Innovation Hub were hard at work after finding out a family of one of their members had been evicted from their home. They spent the day brainstorming what resources and systems they had available to help. When students have to relocate because of crises, cost of living or other circumstances, the program helps with job stability and smooth transitions. This is a typical day at the hub.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
redandblack.com | Katie Guenthner
The University of Georgia’s dining halls will all be open on Friday, Jan. 10, but opening will be delayed by one hour, opening at 8 a.m., according to UGA’s emergency news site. Snelling will close at 2:30 p.m. and all other main campus dining halls will close at 8 p.m. Dining halls may close earlier if weather conditions change, and more details on UGA Dining Services’ inclement weather policies can be found here.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
redandblack.com | Katie Guenthner
On Nov. 27 at around 3:40, Athens-Clarke County Police Department officers responded to a report of a beer keg theft on College Avenue. The caller said that his mother had rented him a beer keg from Five Points Bottle Shop for his birthday party. At around 5 p.m. two days prior, the caller last saw the beer keg on his back porch. He spent the night of Nov. 26 at his mother’s house and found that the beer keg was missing the next morning.
